The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-02

typhoid fever strikes him ID tne snaues6
room on the fourth story OF q htth rate
boarding house, cursing God, and calling for
his mother, and fighting back demons from
his his dying pillow, which is besweated and
torn to rags, he plunges out Of the world
with the Shrek of destroyed spirit Alas
for that kind of fun! 1t is renorSe. 1t IS de-
spair. It is blackness of hlackness 1t Is woe
unending and long reverharatlng, anc crush,
ing as though all the raountalns OF all
continents roll on KIN in one avalanche.
NV soul, stand back from such fun.
Young man, there is no Iun 10 snip
wrecking your character, no fun IN dis
gracing your fathers name. mere n, IS no
fun in breaking your mothers heart There Is
nofun in the physical pangs of the dissolute.
There is no fun in the prohigates death-bed.
There is no fun in an undone eternity.
Paracelsus, out of the ashes Of burnt rose,
said he could recreate the rose, but be failed
in the alchenic undertaking. ano rossate LIE
once burned down in sin can never e. gam DO
made to blossom.
Oh. this plumbli line Of the everlasting right!
God will throw it over all our lives to sno"
us our moral reflections. God will tnro" IL
over all churches to show whether they are
doing useful work or are standing instances
CT idleness and pretense de "lli thro" tnaC
plumb line over all nations to demonstrate
IIeL "neUne. - S.e -. taS +ba;r ambitions holy or
iutels soou =. &C.. 49, th.t nlrn,h line over
the Spanish monarchy CT other days, and
what became of her? Ask the splintered
hulks of her overthrown armada. he tnrew
that plumb line over French imperialism.
ana TnaS was enS .ns the fallen column Of the
Place Vendon1e, and the grave trencneS OF
Sedan, and the blood OF reVolntlons o. olner
emit times rolling through the Champs Elysees.
He threw that plumb-line. over ancient
Rome, and what became OF the realm OF tne
Cesarsa Ask her war eagles, %lgn peas
the Tiber. He threw it over the AsSsyrlan
Empire Of a thousand years, the thrones
OF SemTams, ana oaiuanSps.u;a' GU
ShainaAeses, Oh t"ea'y 1SeseH I.ooai;-,,, "a
pedltlons' 'ne c!tlTS .I Gt .iJ LiennIod =, tho
the scepVer ana al Cne "osi ~, ctSoeo - v-o
presence. hat became oI az CnS az auIet. tta
ASK the Iaiien palaces acc y. hnoI 'aJ .1a r ~, 80 80
corpses OF her lS?,ooo solalery sia.n py Sue
angel OF the LORD IN one nlSn1anu She ~ ts4
sculptures y. S.se 49, 80 sniendor before which
no" remains VI Giis.o az sp.enhd pe,1ohad God 10 NOW
na1lons sIaSseie1u aIo ,;.o 80. tbs American
thro%ins tndG pun oitu t;nra 1v;th This
repuo aiia at,er ~ - q He tesn His sahbaths or
natlon, ana "heCnel we Aesp 100000 nIv ~. ~
alsnonor Ineh, "nsSuet atsu -se 30 Gbr;ot;an
lqu!ty a0mlnaoe, mnsSue, o,, T,,;s.n,, ~
or lntaei, wasener we luta m God Gi 1r sga;nst
refuse IT. waesnes we are .Os e uyu sbai II ss na.
t h, WI a 1eSiog Si@ber and h@ber Career or go
doW9 d.Un in II the a. same crave where Babylon, and
SGmn &jneveh a., '' and T6ebes. and Assyria are
..,mC .on,.Ioharod ~
SeRI3Ino Rut saw vou if there be nothing but a
plumb line what can any OF Us @ 90, 1or o' tnere
IS an old provero wmen tlusnIuiiy oeeiai Ia h;: eH
If the best man 1aulIS were TIi1veL - us
forehead it would make MN pun nls nav 9sel
his eyes What shall we 90 wnen, aecorMnng nngg
to Isaiah, God shall lay Judgment 70 me l,ne
and Righteousness to the plumnet an
here is where the Gospel comes IN WIN
Saviour's righteousness to make UP Tor oui
dafc;+s And wh;ls see hanging on the
Ill - ,,,,,mh line | Sc, also hanging there a
cross And while the one condemns us the
other saves us, if only we will hold to it
And here and now you may be set free with